What to do with stuff that your replacing?

guylikeme

E.g buys a new coffee table. What to do with other one.

Selling it doesn't get many bites. Charity shops don't take much furniture. Need rid as house has limited space and don't want to throw out for environmental reasons.

Thoughts?

Menas

Stick it, with a picture, on adverts with a €0 price tag. It will be gone in hours.

Thats what we do. People will take all kinds of crap off you if it is free.

me_irl

*rubs temples* I'm assuming you're "in Dublin". Although "assume" makes an ass out of you and me... so the saying goes.

http://www.sdcc.ie/services/recycling-waste/recycling-centres

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Firewood

AnonoBoy

Sell it.
Give it away.
Chop it up and burn it.
Take it to the dump.

The Backwards Man

I didn't get where I am today by trawling the bog looking for discarded pallets and then throwing out perfectly good kindling.

muddypaws

SVP will usually take old furniture, either for families in need or for selling in the shop.

Jumbletown.ie is also a good place, I got a virtually new kitchen for nothing, the family had an extension built and couldn't find cabinets to match their existing kitchen which had been in for 3 years.

Harry Palmr

Turn it into a bench seat by placing it next to the wall in your back garden that gets the sun.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Saw/chop it up for firewood or like suggested above, advertise it 'free to take away' on adverts and it'll be gone by this evening. I got rid of whole house load of old furniture that way, we were moving house and had a lot of old donated furniture that we no longer wanted or needed. I advertised it free to collect and it was all gone the following day, a person looking to furnish a flat he had to rent took it all for his flat...simples.

Staplor

Donedeal that stuff.

Take a few photos, plus the dimensions.

If there are any marks, take photos of them.

Put it up cheap, be gone in no time, plus you'll have bonus cash.

miezekatze

Menas wrote: »

Stick it, with a picture, on adverts with a €0 price tag. It will be gone in hours.

Thats what we do. People will take all kinds of crap off you if it is free.

+1, we do the same. Even if it's in bad condition and you can't imagine anyone wanting it, if it's free someone will take it.

wil

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I didn't get where I am today by trawling the bog looking for discarded pallets and then throwing out perfectly good kindling.

Bog trawler. Is that an environmentally friendly bog trotter.?

Anyway have used jumbletown and adverts. But advise - no timewasters. They can be a pain. Jumbletown allows you pick who to give to rather than first come, allowing weeding out of timewasters.

MadDog76

There's a charity shop on Francis Street that specialise in furniture, they'll take it off your hands.

BeardySi

Freecycle/freegle it

recylingbin

Put it out in the space shuttle parts shed.

Olishi4

Could you make something useful with it?

My husband made a really nice white picket fence for our garden with our old bed frame. He's really good at things like that, I wouldn't have a clue so I'm usually left in charge of the painting. He used the left over bits to make little plant boxes too.

He has the shed out the back immaculate. It's cleaner than our house